Heres The Rest Of Them!Right At The End Of This Month I Decided I Had Run Out Of Time, So The Real Life

Here’s the rest of them! Right at the end of this month I decided I had run out of time, so the real life sketchbook has a few pages painted flat black between these.

I feel a lot better this year, but I have a couple of strategies planned in case things go badly again. I might go as small as A7 if a whole page is too daunting, and in the limit if I really can’t do anything on a given day I’ll paint it black again. That way I won’t have a backlog - either it’s done or it’s not.

Inktober is may favourite art event of the year so I hope this time goes better!

Inktober 2021, Day 2 - technical pens and grey pen

It was quite a surprise the first time she made him fly.

This is probably my most popular non-fanart piece ever, so I added it to my redbubble shop! I’ve just set up basics like prints and postcards, but I can add other products if anyone is interested.

I’m just in it for the spiral notebooks really.

Day 2 - gel pens (and a brush pen)

More creatures than Louise and her foster parents call her house their home.

Remember when I said I only had 90 minutes a day to do these? I don’t know what made me think I could do this in an hour and half. It took that long to do just the lineart and the spot blacks, I’ve been crosshatching for hours! I’m really pleased with this though, so it was worth it.

I had 10 days off work for Easter, but of course we’re still trapped indoors, so I decided to do some gouache painting! I’ve only used gouache once before, but I’m pretty pleased with these. I suppose it’s not very different from watercolour which is what I normally use. Next I may dare to try… acrylics.

These are landscapes from Shasta’s world. One day I’m going to have to make a decision on whether I like the pylons or the stone ruins better, since pylons would rust away very quickly. Maybe I can contrive a reason for them to survive…

Here I am, frantically posting the rest of Inktober 2020 before Inktober 2021 starts!

I’ve done Inktober every year since 2013, so I was quite upset that I couldn’t finish it in 2020. I kept trying for the whole month, but I only managed a few sketches. If you squint you can see there are two dates on some of these - those are the ones that were at least sketched on the right day, the others were backfilled months later. 

I’m going to try again this year, so hold your thumbs for me!

If you breathed in the gas you turned into one. They were all people once.

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More dream monsters! This collection is starting to reach a decent size, I think these are numbers 11 and 12. I dreamed these quite a while ago, but only recently had time to paint them.

I sent one to my friend Sammy and she didn’t appreciate it.

Sammy: :S why are you drawing body horror during a pandemic?

Sarah: because I had the day off work I guess